1st Edition
Understanding Young Chinese Backpackers The Pursuit of Freedom and Its Risks
By Jia Xie
Copyright 2022
146 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
146 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
146 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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An activity that originated in Western societies, backpacking has gained increasing popularity among Chinese millennials. In a spirit of the ‘search for self’, young Chinese backpackers have sought to display their pursuit of freedom, independence and responsibility within an increasingly individualised society through backpacking.
This volume investigates contemporary young Chinese persons’... Read more
1. Introduction. 2. Conceptualisation 3. Methodology. 4. Pursuing freedom: Backpackers in the eyes of their contemporaries. 5. Be a backpacker, be independent. 6 Alternative seeker: Backpacking as a way of life. 7. A new classification of the backpacker. 8. Understanding young Chinese backpackers: The pursuit of freedom and its risks
Biography
Jia Xie is a distinguished research fellow in the School of Tourism Management at South China Normal University. Her research covers backpacker culture, the sociology of tourism and geographies of media and communication.
